When Martha Stavers Walker was born on 29 January 1839, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Gideon Watson Walker, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Stavers, was 28. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Thomas George Harold. She lived in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1855 and New Providence, Union, New Jersey, United States in 1870. She died on 26 June 1879, in Worcester, Maryland, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Rehoboth Presbyterian Cemetery, Rehobeth, Somerset, Maryland, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Historical Boundaries 1857: Union, New Jersey, United States
English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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